Sentence examples for important conquest from inspiring English sources

The outskirts of Mosul, the scene of Isis's first and most important conquest and now very much the key to whatever emerges from Iraq's past three years of ruin, were only 10 miles beyond.

Hitler viewed the port as an important conquest because it could provide Nazi Germany with an ice-free harbor from which to ship iron ore to build his war machine.

If she manages to keep the successful policies implemented during Lula's government, and avoids making drastic changes to the economy, her government will be an important conquest for the Brazilian people.

Refusing to eat was the way he found to show the desperation and despair of living under a system that gags and masks his most important "conquests".

It was therefore only during the long reign of his son and successor, Süleyman I (ruled 1520 66), called "the Magnificent" in Europe and "the Lawgiver" (Kanuni) among the Ottomans, that the foundations laid by Selim were fully used to establish the classical Ottoman state and society and to make important new conquests in the East and West.

That the destruction of Jews was as important as military conquest explains Germany's "defiance and destruction" in the Third Reich's last days.

Who is more important in the conquest of disease: the compassionate, sympathetic healer or the cold, obsessive investigator trying to ascertain the cause of disease, who, if successful, would render the doctor obsolete?

Most important, the Arab conquest of the Syrian and Palestinian area meant that the Greek Empire ruling from its capital, Constantinople (now Istanbul in Turkey), no longer dominated an Aramaic-speaking Semitic population.

SINCE the Spanish conquest, important writing in Quechua has emerged, but linguists and Quechua speakers hope that the new version of "Don Quixote" will be a step toward forming a public culture in the language, through Quechua magazines, television and books, that will keep its speakers engaged with the wider world.

Tolerance to such water deficits most likely occurred in organisms like bryophyte mosses and was evolutionarily important during the conquest of land by plants [ 2, 3].

The Zeus software is less important for its conquests than for its high regard among cybercriminals.